OUR FATHER WARNS THOSE WHO PRACTICED BLOODSHED OF IMPENDING JUDGEMENT

Ezekiel chapter 11 verse 9 says this;

I will drive you out of the city and deliver you into the hands of foreigners and inflict punishment on you.

In a vision seen by Ezekiel the prophet, the leaders of Israel in Jerusalem were devising their strategies in the face of foreign invasion and had decided that because their had recently built their houses in the city, they would entrench themselves therein and be, as it were, the meat in the pot.

Ezekiel chapter 11 verse 3 says it this way;

They say, ‘Haven’t our houses been recently rebuilt? This city is a pot, and we are the meat in it.’ 

Ezekiel was instructed by the Lord to prophecy against these leaders to inform them that their plan to remain in the city would fail and instead, would be driven out of Jerusalem and that they would meet their punishment  at the hands of foreigners at the borders of Israel.

Because they had not followed the law of God and they had caused bloodshed in the land, they would denied the option to fortify themselves in the city of Jerusalem and they would be cast into open country and there, they would meet what they feared most: the sword of judgement.

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